Re: Arlo, a little QA comment regarding your interview with linux .com

[Mark Gordon <mtgordon helixcode com>]

> I'm really disapointed by the utter disrepect of user
> feedback of all these organisations. People have been
> pleading on this list for less, not more splashs for months,
> but everyone seems more concerned of having more or bigger
> splash than others these days. 

If an application doesn't load instantly, a splash screen is useful to let the user 
know that the application didn't either hang or quietly fail to launch.  Splash 
screens that provide progress indicators provide additional information in case the 
program doesn't start successfully.  Writing a capplet to allow users to override the 
default behaviour is reasonable, but the default behavior makes sense for most users.

A command-line switch (as seen in AbiWord) is a useful case-by-case solution within the existing infrastructure.

-Mark Gordon